Analysis of Pavement Grooving in Vehicle Skidding Prevention on Wet Horizontal Curves
Publication: International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology 2023
ABSTRACT
Pavement grooving is an effective treatment to improve skid resistance and reduce crash rates on horizontal curves. However, besides experience-based guidelines, there is currently no mechanistic procedure that can quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of pavement grooving design in vehicle skidding prevention on wet horizontal curves. Therefore, this paper presented a computer simulation procedure to evaluate the relative effectiveness of pavement grooving in terms of their ability to reduce skidding potential on wet horizontal curves. The skidding potential reduction of a vehicle is represented by the increase of skid resistance and maximum safe vehicle speed. Both longitudinal and transverse grooves were studied, and three common groove dimensions were considered. Different operating conditions were represented by different values of pavement curve radii, superelevations, skid resistance states, and water-film thicknesses. This study concluded that longitudinal grooving was significantly more effective than transverse grooving in vehicle skidding prevention on wet horizontal curves, which was consistent with past observations and experimental results. The results provided respective improvement magnitudes in the skid resistance and the maximum safe vehicle speed of each groove design quantitatively. The proposed technique provides an analytical basis for pavement grooving design and maintenance management on horizontal curves.
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International Conference on Road and Airfield Pavement Technology 2023
Pages: 89 - 105
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Published online: Feb 6, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Curvature
- Design (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Geometry
- Highway and road design
- Highway transportation
- Infrastructure
- Load and resistance factor design
- Load factors
- Mathematics
- Pavement design
- Pavements
- Practice and Profession
- Public administration
- Public health and safety
- Safety
- Sight distances
- Skid resistance
- Structural design
- Traffic accidents
- Traffic engineering
- Traffic management
- Transportation engineering
- Vehicle-pavement interaction
- Vehicles
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